Hi Brad,

Well, today the load speed is quite fast for me too.

Though, if I understand it correctly, the functionality is implemented
as a reference to javascript, generated by PHP script
(may-be-on-the-fly) in a foreign web site:

<script language="JavaScript"
src="http://feed2js.org//feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fweeklysqueak.wordpress.com%2Ffeed%2F&chan=title&num=5&desc=55&date=y&targ=y"
type="text/javascript"></script>

When the traffic from feed2js.org slows down significantly the above
script execution delays too. This may result in an overall rendering
slowdown or postpone rendering of certain components entirely as
happened in my case yesterday.

If there is a php interpreter on the box it may be a good idea to
install feed2js.php to the squeak.org machine to minimize the
dependence on external, perhaps not so reliable, components.

If not, we can do the feed transformation in smalltalk.

What do you think?

Filip

On 15/01/07, Brad Fuller <brad at bradfuller.com> wrote:
> Filip Stadnik wrote:
> > First of all - many thanks!
> >
> > But... I guess the Weekly Squeak box is being read and transformed
> > from RSS feed on-th-fly with each user access. Am I right?
>
> Yes
>
> > If yes, I'd recommend to cache the feed for some TTL period rather
> > than transforming it on-the-fly. Then perform the full refresh once a
> > day or spaw a separate process for this.
>
> That's strange. It's immediate for me.
>
>
>